This week, the plenary session of the Supreme Court did not obtain the necessary votes to invalidate part of the Judicial Reform approved in September by the ruling party, clearing the last obstacle that weighed on the controversial constitutional amendment, which has scared the markets and frightened the investors.
The Court needed at least eight votes in favor of the draft sentence, but it only had seven of the 11 ministers, so it could not suppress the election of judges and magistrates by popular vote, one of the core points of the constitutional reform promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The ruling also sought to invalidate the figure of faceless judges, the mass removal of judges and magistrates, and the unchallengeability of sentences from the Disciplinary Court, a new entity created with the reform.
The discussion in the country’s highest judicial body threatened to unleash a clash of powers, after Congress, dominated by the ruling party, days ago approved a constitutional reform to ensure that the amendments to the Magna Carta cannot be challenged. In addition, he asked the Court to dismiss the draft sentence.
The Mexican president celebrated the decision of the Supreme Court, and pointed out that she already had a plan in case they did overturn the Judicial Reform.
-With information from the Reuters agency.
